Ernest C.G. Stückelberg de Breidenbach

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…out by the Swiss physicist Ernest C.G. Stückelberg de Breidenbach and by the American physicist Richard Feynman that a meaning can be attached to world lines moving backward in time—i.e., for those for which ordinary time t decreases as proper time τ increases. Since, as shall be shown later, the…

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